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Type: Single Page
Printed in Issue: 20th July 1985

The Story

Chalky is on holiday, but the seaside town is full of old people. Suddenly he finds a green plastic sheet on the beach and he decides to get creative. He draws scales on it, and then wraps it around himself so that people think he's a merboy.

But sometime later nobody has come up to him. So he decides to have a snack. He's busy choosing what to have, when a girl appears from behind a rock asking for him to share his treats. Chalky shares both of them with her, and then invites her roller skating or to a local disco. She tells him not to be silly because merpeople can't wear rollerskates or dance.

She hits him around the head with her fin and swims off. She's a mermaid!

Notes

Chalky has to choose between Pastilles or chocolate.
The editor labels this a twist in the tail!